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Google is undergoing an antitrust investigation in India, the Competition Commission (CCI) in that country confirmed on Monday. The Economic Times, citing sources, reported over the weekend that the CCI was readying a competition inquiry into the search giant's "alleged discriminatory practices" relating to its AdWords …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    How dare Google

    Have the affront to exist and end up being the dominant search engine because no one can be arsed trying anyone else!

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: How dare Google

      Same would go for Microsoft and Windows...

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      1. NinjasFTW
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        Re: How dare Google

        i think the difference there was that you could only use Windows to run 90% of the worlds software and large scale migrations were extremely difficult for a number of reasons.

        Its not that hard to move away from Google services and their search business does not provide anything that actually runs the business.

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      2. Tony Paulazzo
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        >Same would go for Microsoft and Windows...<

        Actually, Microsoft got sussed for writing code into windows 3.1 <citation needed> to ensure it wouldn't work with DRDOS, their sole competitor, so a 'bit' different.

        I just find it strange that the worlds (maybe) least evil corporation that freetards love is always being investigated, not for protecting consumers (witness their exit from human rights abuse country China), but from ruling governments.

        Someone, high up, doesn't like them ('...and I'm not being paranoid.')

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  2. Ilsa Loving
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    Riiight...

    A government that's synonymous with corruption, (just look at what happened to their $45 tablet) is going to investigate Google. Where's the oversized cahones icon?

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  3. John A Blackley

    Here's a nice, big, successful company......

    Let's do all we can do bollox it up and maybe scare them into paying us some juicy bribe....... er, sorry. 'settlements'.

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  4. gujiguju

    AdWords, not Search

    Nice sleight-of-hand in Google's non-sequitur.

    India CCI is not investigating if general users are being strangled into NOT using Bing or DuckDuckGo, it's about their restraint-of-trade with Google's advertising customers regarding access & transparency to eponymous keywords.

    Duh.

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